Benita (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): An African Romance

A shipwreck. A treasure of hidden gold. A desperate search. Haggardwho viewed his contemporary, Robert Louis Stevenson, as inspiration and competitionpulls out the stops in this 1906 action-adventure tale of ghosts, spirit possession, a lost race, and a young woman searching Africa for her missing father.

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A shipwreck. A treasure of hidden gold. A desperate search. Haggardwho viewed his contemporary, Robert Louis Stevenson, as inspiration and competitionpulls out the stops in this 1906 action-adventure tale of ghosts, spirit possession, a lost race, and a young woman searching Africa for her missing father.

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Meet the Author

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.